Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were matters of small concern to the judge. Actually no one could have had a fairer trial than the one he had given the eleven Reds. Their resentment sprang from the fact that he had demonstrated a way to deal legally with the Communist Party in the U.S. The nation's highest courts would have to decide whether Medina's interpretation of the law was also constitutional...
...Cohens eventually decided that they had better hire a lawyer to advise them. They had to rent a loft in a warehouse (at $50 a month) to store the prizes as they arrived. For five weeks Mrs. Cohen stayed away from her job as forelady in an overalls rental concern, to answer mail and telephone calls. Between times she tried to figure out which of the hundreds of prizes she and the family should keep. When there was nothing else to worry about, well-meaning friends took up the slack by telling the Cohens that they would end up thousands...
...almost in half in the 1951 budget, that "secret orders" had already been issued and that the Air Force was even advocating "that no large carriers or air groups should be kept in the Navy." Said Vinson: "So, I find it not too difficult to comprehend the concern of the air arm of the Navy and the Navy in general...
...pretty "Toodie" Simpson, the bachelor met his match. Ever since her schooldays (at Virginia's fashionable, horsy Foxcroft), according to one of her friends, Toodie "had only one concern-to get married." She wore huge gold earrings in a gypsy style and had frizzy black hair. The effect, said her friend, was rather too exotic for an 18-year-old and somehow she "scared the boys away." Nevertheless, in 1946 Toodie married William Simpson, the son of a Chicago millionaire. Last year they were divorced. Now a sleek, mature 26 who "can afford a suit or two from Schiaparelli...
...extra-curricular lecture series in college teaching will be offered; its main concern will be with introducing graduate students to the problems of teaching--organizing a course, selection of material, grading, understanding the student's point of view, his resistance to learning. The lecturers will be such experts as President Conant and Professors Demos and LeCorbeiller, and the course ought to fulfill its intentions. But those intentions are not nearly high enough...